The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMeditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe mind has to be empty to see clearly.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIChange in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIUsing another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIn oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWe all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIFear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTII don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIDo not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIf you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTILook what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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